My last in person tour of Words and Pictures is tomorrow afternoon at 2pm (Saturday 17th November). We will meet and depart from The Gift ( A raft) in the Australia Collection in the Queensland Art Gallery. Please RSVP by gumbootspearlz@gmail.com if you are able to make it. A mega thank you to the QAGOMAContinue reading “Last In Person Tour”
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Words and Pictures Reviewed by Renee Hills
Review of June Perkins’s Words and Pictures Tour (Queensland Art Gallery, Sept-November 2018) French artist Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917) famously said ‘Art is not what you see, but what you make others see’. This was truly my experience when I joined June Perkins’s tour of Words & Pictures. June’s interactive journey through the AustralianContinue reading “Words and Pictures Reviewed by Renee Hills”
Hot Air Balloon – Art Adventure Begins
Originally posted on Ripple Poetry :
Yvonne Koolmatrie’s Hot Air Balloon, Queensland Art Gallery Climb on board, dreamers and travellers Whoever you may be, take a journey with me. Feel the woven textures beneath your feet. Smell the Murray River in the weave. Take yourself to the balloon’s edge Feel the breezes through the sedge. Touch…
Events
WORDS & PICTURES GRANDPARENTS DAY TOUR 10.30AM SUN 28 OCT 2018 QAG | GALLERY 10, GALLERY 11, GALLERY 12, GALLERY 13 | BOOK NOW On Grandparents Day, visitors of all ages are invited to join Words & Pictures writer, Dr June Perkins, on an interactive journey through the Australian Collection. Follow June’s series of poemsContinue reading “Events”
Haystack
Originally posted on Ripple Poetry :
Image: William Delafield Cook A haystack 1982, Courtesy of the Queensland Art Gallery ? Look! Rats and the children run out from their hiding places in the haystack to dance in front of us in a merry line? Who else do you think hides here? Do you have a memory…
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